Does the increased competition between academic institutions for students (and income) lead to draining poorer regions of strong students, teachers and researchers?
Is this inevitable, and should it be encouraged as the best should go where they are most challenged and their resources put to the best use?
Benefiting from globalisation: What lessons can be taken from other markets when setting up practical and competitive models of education?
What kind of policies, administration and environment are needed to succeed, and what considerations need to be given towards funding? Case study: importing best practices from American-style higher education in Arab countries.
Importing international models vs developing local ones: what are the pros and cons
‘Exporting’ educational programmes – what are the key challenges?
Speakers
Adriana Jaramillo, Senior Education Specialist, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank James Knight, President and CEO of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) Professor Gopinathan, Associate Dean, Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Stream contributor
Enid Strickland, Interim President, College of the North Atlantic-Qatar
Jabar Abdul Wahab and Mohan Lal Menon, Bridgeway Group of Companies
Dr Shafeeq Ghabra, former president of the American University of Kuwait, Professor of Political Science at Kuwait University
Let me recommend a different format in order to make our session lively and discussion oriented. How about the following format:
A.I will raise certain questions at the start of the session. Then each of you can give their thoughts for about 5 minutes max. The shorter the better. The role of the opening thoughts is to start a discussion, put forward the issues and challenges etc.
B.Then after the first round I will put forward a deeper set of questions directed at each of you. You will have a chance to add, comment on your colleagues and interact with the questions. We will try to make several rounds of questions.
C.We will go on in our discussion back and forth for about 40 minutes or less.
D.The rest of our time will be a lively discussion of commentary, in addition to Q and A with the audience.
E.Would appreciate that each of you sends me an email on his or her main question, which will start the opening remarks. You may add any number of questions (2 or 3) that you think are important to ask. Please look at the questions below taken from
F.Please look at the questions created by Kirstie and let me know if you would like me to address any of them to you.
G.Please come at 4:15, which is 15 minutes before the session starts on the 16th of October. This will allow us to talk about any aspect you would like me to integrate in our session.
H.Finally: Please send me your Full title and an extra line or two. I will use it to introduce you to the audience at the beginning of the session.
Table of Contents
Discussions
Does the increased competition between academic institutions for students (and income) lead to draining poorer regions of strong students, teachers and researchers?
Is this inevitable, and should it be encouraged as the best should go where they are most challenged and their resources put to the best use?
Benefiting from globalisation: What lessons can be taken from other markets when setting up practical and competitive models of education?
What kind of policies, administration and environment are needed to succeed, and what considerations need to be given towards funding? Case study: importing best practices from American-style higher education in Arab countries.
Importing international models vs developing local ones: what are the pros and cons
‘Exporting’ educational programmes – what are the key challenges?
Speakers
Adriana Jaramillo, Senior Education Specialist, Middle East and North Africa, World BankJames Knight, President and CEO of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC)
Professor Gopinathan, Associate Dean, Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Stream contributor
Enid Strickland, Interim President, College of the North Atlantic-QatarJabar Abdul Wahab and Mohan Lal Menon, Bridgeway Group of Companies
Stream leader
Dr Shafeeq Ghabra, former president of the American University of Kuwait, Professor of Political Science at Kuwait UniversityLet me recommend a different format in order to make our session lively and discussion oriented. How about the following format:
A. I will raise certain questions at the start of the session. Then each of you can give their thoughts for about 5 minutes max. The shorter the better. The role of the opening thoughts is to start a discussion, put forward the issues and challenges etc.
B. Then after the first round I will put forward a deeper set of questions directed at each of you. You will have a chance to add, comment on your colleagues and interact with the questions. We will try to make several rounds of questions.
C. We will go on in our discussion back and forth for about 40 minutes or less.
D. The rest of our time will be a lively discussion of commentary, in addition to Q and A with the audience.
E. Would appreciate that each of you sends me an email on his or her main question, which will start the opening remarks. You may add any number of questions (2 or 3) that you think are important to ask. Please look at the questions below taken from
F. Please look at the questions created by Kirstie and let me know if you would like me to address any of them to you.
G. Please come at 4:15, which is 15 minutes before the session starts on the 16th of October. This will allow us to talk about any aspect you would like me to integrate in our session.
H. Finally: Please send me your Full title and an extra line or two. I will use it to introduce you to the audience at the beginning of the session.